Often
while out hiking, I've passed by now overgrown as well as disused farm
land. This was the case once more earlier today when two friends and I
hiked from Tung Chung to Mui Wo via Pak Mong, Ngau Kwu Long and A Po Long.

At a few points of the trek though (notably Pak Mong and Pak Ngan Heung -- two villages famed for their fung shui woods),
we also saw cultivated farm land and also a few people out working on
their vegetable plots though. A visible sign of farming being a sunset industry
in Hong Kong was that all the people I saw cultivating their land this
afternoon were elderly -- and, interestingly, elderly women at that. At the same time, at least one vegetable
patch's scarecrows got me thinking that its cultivator was from a
younger generation because, well, it just looked too "hip" to be
otherwise! ;b

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Delightful picture of the ageless vegetable gardener and what looks to be a well-tended and productive garden. Just about the last thing I would think of regarding Hong Kong and all the more lovely due to its incongruity.